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(the Bear) has eaten his wife’s fat. Coyote runs away, pursued by the Bear. Coyote 
falls, and his hands strike a buffalo horn, with which he scares away the Grizzly 
Bear.} 
8. CovorE AND Grizzty Bear ! (No. 57).—Coyote sees Grizzly Bear feeding, and 
calls him names.? Grizzly Bear pursues him. While they are running, Coyote jumps 
over the Bear. The Bear chases him around a stone. Coyote falls down and falls 
on the horns of a buffalo, which stick on his hands. Coyote rises, and with the horns 
frightens away the Bear. The Bear swims the river, and is hit with the horns. 
9. Coyote AND Locust? (No. 3).—Locust is carrying his leg. Coyote envies him, 
and breaks his own leg too. The two makefriends. Coyote goes ahead, and is kicked 
by Locust, who kills him. When Magpie picks at Coyote’s eyes,* Coyote revives. 
He slaps himself, and the dung tells him ° that he will become a knife attached to 
Coyote’s foot. Locust goes ahead, and Coyote kills him. 
10. Covorr AND GrizzLy BEAR (No. 4).—Coyote makes fun of Grizzly Bear’s dung.! 
In order to catch Coyote, the Bear first creates service berries, then wild cherries, 
which Coyote does not eat. Then he creates rose hips; when Coyote is eating these, 
Grizzly Bear catches him, together with the bushes. Coyote pleads that he did not 
offend Grizzly Bear. When Grizzly Bear tries to hit him, Coyote runs away. He 
calls for the help of his manitous. One of these becomes a river; another, a log which 
lies across the river and bobs up and down; a third one becomes a tent. Coyote is 
told to come out of the tent as soon as the Grizzly Bear appears, and to abuse him. 
When the Bear reaches the river, he tries to cross on the bobbing log. Coyote holds 
the log, but lets go of it while the Bear is crossing over it. The Grizzly Bear falls off 
and is drowned.°® 
11. CoyorE Gors visitine 7 (No. 5).—Coyote’s wife is Dog. Coyote sends his chil- 
dren to visit their uncles. They go to Kingfisher, who stretches his hand back to get 
his sharp horn. Kingfisher sends his two children to bring two switches. He ties his 
hair over his forehead, and jumps from the top of the tent into the water through a 
hole in the ice. He comes back carrying two switches filled with fish. The following 
day Dog sends her children to visit their uncle Moose. Moose cuts off his wife’s nose, 
throws ashes on the cut, which heals up at once. He sends his children to get roots, 
which are rolled in the ashes of the wife and become guts. He siaps himself, and 
camas appears. On the following day Coyote tries in vain to imitate him. 
1 Assiniboin (Lowie PaAM 4:121). 
Blackfoot (Wissler PaAM 2:32; Uhlenbeck VK AWA 12:63). 
Cree (Russell, Expl. in Far North 209). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:277; Lowie-St. Clair JAF L 22:266). 
2 Shuswap (Teit JE 2:654). 
Ute (RBAE 1:54), ete. 
3 Nez Percé (Spinden JAFL 21:23). 
Perhaps Shuswap (Teit JE 2:655). 
4 Nez Pereé (MAFLS 11; Mayer-Farrand 151; Spinden 180). 
5Chilcotin (Farrand JE 2:16). 
Chinook (Boas BBAE 20:92). 
Flathead (Wilson, Trans. Ethn. Soc. of London, 1866, 4:312). 
Kaska (Teit JAF L 39:444). 
Kathlamet (Boas BBAE 26:45). 
Lillooet (Teit JAFL 25:308, 317). 
Nez Percé (Mayer-Farrand MAFLS 11:141). 
Okanagon (Teit MAILS 11:73-75). 
Shoshoni (Lowie PaAM 2:237, 241, 254). 
Shuswap (Teit JE 2:635). 
Tahltan (Teit MS). 
Takelma (Sapir U Penn 2:65, 83). 
Thompson (Teit MAFLS 6:30, 60; MAFLS 11:2; JE 8: 234), 
6 See Waterman JAF L 27:43, ‘‘Crane Bridge.”’ 
7 See discussion in Boas RBAE 31:694; nIsor Nez Percé (MAFLS 11: Mayer-Farrand 164; Spinden, 181); 
Osage (Dorsey FM 7:13, 15); Shoshoni (Lowie-St. Clair JAFL 22:266); Thompson (Teit MAFLS 11:6); 
Zuni (Edward 8S. Handy JAFL 31). 
A number of Californian tales of unsuccessful imitation may perhaps be distantly related to the tale of 
the bungling host. See Wishosk (Kroeber JAFL 18:102); Yana (Sapir U Cal 9:211). 
